Total pages in book: 120
Estimated words: 121887 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 121887 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 609(@200wpm)___ 488(@250wpm)___ 406(@300wpm)
Yeah.
He was going to pick up the blackmailing scheme where Trevor left off.
Thank God my bestest besties were a whole heckuva lot better than Kevin Johanssen was to Trevor Clampitt.
Seriously.
Kevin also was, as Javi told me, on Congressman Mahoney’s radar, considering Mace had made his own deal with Mahoney.
Therefore, once Kevin was released by the Hottie Squad, he disappeared.
He wasn’t missed.
Sometimes I wondered what became of him.
But, although it might make me a bad person, at the end of the day, I didn’t really care.
Willow did.
Not that she wanted him back or even wanted to see him or anything.
She was just pretty messed up about the whole Kev/Trev thing.
I totally got that.
That was what every shyster counted on. That you’d feel like a fool because he duped you. That you would somehow think it was your fault. That you would question again and again how you could be so stupid, when you weren’t. You were just a person who believed another person, not having any idea that other person was hiding the asshole within (again, totally worth the curse word).
And man, she felt like a fool.
The Angels were all over trying to help her move on from that.
Who was not, was Gabe.
This pissed me off, since it was clear he was totally into her.
But I was already pissed off because Knox was dating someone.
And that someone was not Luna.
Luna tried to hide it, but she wasn’t handling Knox’s new girlfriend very well.
After I ranted about both Gabe and Knox being two big doo-doo heads one morning during our smoothie/coffee dance at my place, Javi grabbed hold of me and held me close.
“First, ‘doo-doo heads’?” he asked, sounding like he was trying really hard not to lose it laughing.
“Big jerks isn’t enough,” I snapped. “Neither is colossal cretins, outlandish oafs or insane idiots.”
“How about moronic motherfuckers?” Javi suggested, still sounding like he was about to bust a gut laughing.
“Javi,” I warned.
He gave me a gentle shake and reminded me, “Neither of those women were giving them an in.”
This was disappointingly true.
Gah!
“And I don’t think they’re like you, lil’ mama,” he continued. “They’re not hanging around waiting for the guy to make the first move.”
They weren’t.
Well, maybe Willow a little, but she could lay down a good come-hither stare. I’d seen her.
That did not happen with Gabe.
In fact, she acted like he had some plague, which obviously didn’t sit well with Gabe (or any of us, if I was being honest—though, at least the Angels understood her once-bitten, twelve-thousand-times shy attitude to guys now).
On the other hand, I’d seen Luna walk right up to a dude and ask for his phone number before she even asked his name.
“What you’re saying is, it takes two to tango,” I said to Javi.
“Yeah. If there aren’t two who are up for the dance, no one gets to tango,” Javi replied.
My shoulders drooped.
He pressed a hard kiss on my lips and said, “One thing I know, shit shakes out like it should.”
I saw the look in his eye. That look said we shook out like we should.
And it made me feel totally better (for then, what could I say? I wanted all my girls to have it as good as I did).
So I grinned at him.
He kissed that too.
The goons who Cap, Gabe, Titus and Titus’s “army” subdued?
Javi didn’t share what became of them.
The Angels spent a lot of time conjecturing, and in the end guessed they were bargaining chips Mace used to make sure we didn’t have trouble with the Congressman.
But since Cap nor Eric shared with Raye or Jess either, in the end, we’d never know exactly what happened with them.
It was kind of hot that our men were a hint of a mystery.
Especially mine.
Plans were in full swing for Jacob and Alexis’s wedding.
They’d moved into the two-bedroom unit.
And get this, Joey and Gemma had moved into the two units that had opened up.
At first, since this same thing had happened with Luna, Jessie and me, we all braced for new Angels to be added to our ranks.
But nothing came of it.
So maybe they were just the next ones up on the waiting list.
Though, it was really nice having them a lot closer and getting to know them better, because they were awesome.
And we knew Joey and Gemma weren’t going to be added to the ranks because we had a couple of cases since solving Trev’s blackmail/murder situation.
One was tracking down some numbskull who kept stealing money from ladies of the evening.
Obviously, this wasn’t something that those girls could report to the cops.
But Jinx reported it to us.
It took us a couple of weeks of very late nights and some undercover work that Javi, Cap and Eric put their feet down that me, Raye and Jessie were not going to do (so we were surveillance while Luna and Shanti did it).